Community Canning Project Seeks Resident Interest
Sweet Grass county may host a community canning center led by the high school agriculture instructor if sufficient interest is shown. A countywide mail ballot will gauge feasibility with March 10 trustees meeting to decide, and federal funds to pay a canner’s salary.
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Sweet Grass County
H. P. Schug
Peearkal
State Department of Vocacy
Schug
County Board of Trustees
OWS
Fed
Second Hospital Train Carries 360 Wounded
The second hospital train in a week arrived at Seattle naval hospital carrying 360 sailors and Marines from the central and south Pacific fronts. Most are ill or wounded yet mobile. Red Cross volunteers serve coffee and doughnuts as veterans recount Bougainville action and Tarawa casualties.
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Seattle
Seattle Naval Hospital
Red Cross
William P. Scully
New York City
Francis Ste. Marie
Old Town
Maine
Roger F. Levescue
Brooklyn
Bougainville
Scilly
Tarawa
Starvation Reported in Japanese-Occupied Chinese Territories
Chinese reports say more than 20 million people in enemy-held Hopei province face starvation due to Japanese oppression. Irrigation destruction, forced crop purchases at low prices, and intensified labor conscription drive the famine in once thriving areas.
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Chungking
Hopei Province
China
Big Timber Bond Drive Lags Behind Quota
Big Timber struggles to meet its bond sales target as Montana posts a high state pace with 94.48 percent E bond coverage while Big Timber trails by about $9,000. Sweet Grass county has sold $94,000 of its $109,100 quota with maturity value of $145,465 ahead of a five day countdown to drive completion.
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Montana
Sweet Grass County
Big Timber
Warden Resigns in Protest of Execution
TOPEKA Kansas February 8 Governor Andrew Schoeppel denied clemency to Fred L Brady the man convicted of holdup murder setting April 15 for Kansas first execution in 70 years Warden M F Amrine resigned in protest Amrine a 30 year penal veteran said he opposed capital punishment and did not wish to participate when the state turns to killing.
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Topeka
Kas
Andrew Schoeppel
Fred L. Brady
Kansas
M. F. Amrine
Amrine
State Board
Helsinki Bombed by Russian Bombers in Night Raids
Stockholm reports more than 100 Russian bombers hit Helsinki, Finland, under bright moonlight Sunday night, triggering a three hour alarm then a second at 12:15 a.m. Monday. The first raid was the worst on Helsinki since 1941, with fires still burning as the second alarms sounded. Swedish press described the raids as heavily damaging, signaling a push to knock Finland out of the war after Leningrad’s relief.
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Stockholm
Helsinki
Ceanital
Finland
Leningrad
Federal tax collections nearly double in 1943 totals
The bureau of internal revenue reports 1943 federal tax receipts totaling 31.92 billion, up from 16.77 billion in 1942. State totals list Montana 1943 receipts at 26.54 million and Wyoming at 25.57 million, with other state figures pending full listing.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Montana
Wyoming
Tax Increase Bill Falls Short of President's Demand
WASHINGTON Feb 7 Congress sent a $2,000,000,000 tax increase bill to President Roosevelt after he urged a larger measure. The package would fund an anticipated $100 billion federal outlay, with higher individual and corporate taxes and updated excise and postal rates. The plan taxes income above thresholds and raises corporate tax rates, aiming to cover roughly half of next year’s expected expenditures.
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Waston
Congress
Roosevelt
Eie Oen
Sia “Scheumatici
Ball Fain
Senate
Victory
State Theatre Sale Boosts War Loan Drive in Sweet Grass County
The State theatre auction and film night boosted Sweet Grass county Fourth Loan drive with bonds totaling 25 775 dollars maturity value. Manager McLean reported 236 seats sold from 25 to 1000 dollars while a news reel opened the show and Higher and Higher starring Frank Sinatra closed the evening. Donors and bids listed include Sawyer Stores Vaughn's Cole Drug Co and many local businesses and individuals. Some beef from the 22 and CC ranch was not sold.
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State Theatre
Sweet Grass County
McLean Weoe
Sawyer Stores, Inc
Scovill Creamery
Ullman Lumber Co
Clothes Grier
Emil L. Frang
Kauffman
Boulder Canyon
Ole Motor Co
Texas Oil
Ceee
Jonn M. Rook
Turkey
Eeee
Furstenberg
Fostoria
Bouse Chevrolet Co
Paulson Grocery
Seteee
Big Timber
R. A. Bray—Coffee Table
Cnee
Seeeenneen
O. J. Ellingson
Flasted Drug Co
Gamble Store
Rhetnannawed
Conoco
Nellie Cook
Paul L. van Cleve
Boyd’s Gas Co-op
Farmers Service
Ben A. Clark
Donald McKenzie
Harvey Cort
Jake Osterhout
E. A. Bieber
Leo J
Carl W. Ewan
Almeda’s
Bob Hart
Johnson
McLeod Store
Creston Crest
Kristine Solberg
Ervin Overfelt
CC Ranch
Governor Ford to protest Missouri River plans in Washington
Montana Governor Sam C. Ford will appear before two congressional committees in Washington February 16 and 17 to oppose Missouri River main channel development proposals. He will meet with North Dakota Governor John Moses Wyoming Governor Lester Hunt and South Dakota Governor M. Q. Sharpe and accompany D. P. Fabrick. Ford objects to House Resolution 3961 calling for a nine foot navigation channel and a 390 foot width below Sioux City and a $6 million cost. He seeks deferral of lower Missouri plans pending a federal reclamation plan review.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Ford
Fort Peck
Missouri
Kansas City
House Committee On Flood Control
Army Engineer
Pick
Missouri River
Lower
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Service Restored on Great Northern
Great Falls reports the derailment of a 14 car special passenger train near Swift 15 miles east, blamed on a broken rail. At 3:50 a.m. Monday, 22 soldiers and a Negro porter were injured. most treated at the army air base hospital and released except five kept for observation.
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Great Falls
Billings
Great Northern Railroad
Swift
Here
Great Falls Army Air Base Hospital
U S Troops Win Kwajalein Raid In Pacific Campaign
At Kwajalein in the Marshall islands American forces report 8,122 Japanese killed and 264 captured. U S casualties include 1,148 wounded 82 missing and 286 dead. Admiral Nimitz released the figures after the operation.
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U. S
United States Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Marine
Army
Rickenbacker Reveals Plane Destination in Pacific Crash
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker told Finch junior college students that Canton Island in the Phoenix group was the destination of the Army plane he boarded that crashed in the Pacific over a year earlier. He and seven others were rescued after 21 days on a raft.
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New York
Eddie Rickenbacker
Canton Island
Phoenix Group
Pacific
Finch Junior College
Muster-out Pay Bill Signed By President
President Roosevelt signed the muster-out pay act giving World War II veterans cash payments to aid civilian transition. Eligible veterans receive 100 to 300 dollars. World War I payments ranged 14 to 60 dollars. The law is expected to cost about 3 billion dollars as 1.3 million personnel have already been discharged since Pearl Harbor and may apply to the War and Navy Departments with action within 30 days.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
War and Navy Departments
Chinese Exclusion Act Repeal Signed by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signed a proclamation putting into effect the repeal of the Chinese exclusion act and setting a Chinese immigration quota of 105 persons per year. The move comes after congressional urging last December. Japanese propaganda claims that the United States discriminates against orientals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Civilians Face Milk Limit With War Admin Curtailment
Washington February 6 Civilians will receive about 590000000 pounds less evaporated and condensed milk this year than last under canal location announced by the war food administration. The civilian supply will be about equivalent to the rate of alternation prevailing since last year.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Allied Forces Close On Cassino In Fierce Crag Fight
Fierce crag to crag fighting raged on heights overlooking Cassino as American troops launched a full assault to break the Nazi stronghold delaying the Cassino push and aiding relief of the Anzio bridgehead. Also in the Pacific, Allied HQ said 13 planes were shot down over Rabaul with 10 more probably destroyed.
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Algiers
Cassino
Anzio
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Death of John Barstad in Billings at 66
John Barstad 66 died at 10:30 p m Thursday at Deaconess hospital Billings from liver enlargement He was a rancher and longtime resident of Big Timber born in Norway December 24 1877 He married Olara Messing July 24 1908 and lived at Work Creek Yellowstone before moving to Big Timber 1930 Survived by wife a son Julius Seattle two sisters Everett Wash Marie Barstad Norway two brothers Martin Great Falls Andrew Norway Funeral Monday at the Lutheran church in Big Timber with Rev Axel Anderson officiating
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John Barstad
Deaconess Hospital
Billings
Axel Anderson
E. O. Overland
A Ronald McDonnell
Anderson
Louis Krone
Oisten Bue
Adolf Myrstol
O. P. Terland
Anton Solberg
Theodore Thompson
Mountain View
Norway
United States
Minnesota
Olara Messing
Missoula
Yellowstone
Work Creek
Big Timber
Julius Barstad
Seattle
Sam Peterson
Everett, Wash
Marie Barstad
Martin Barstad
Great Falls
Andrew Barstad
Judith
Everett. Wash
Thorvald Odland
Butte
Montana Tops Fourth War Loan Drive in Nation
Montana led the country in the fourth war loan drive with 90 percent of its total quota sold and a 79 percent rate on "E" bonds. Across states, totals reached 10.752 billion dollars or 76 percent of the 14 billion goal as the drive entered its final week. Other states reporting include Minnesota 78.4 percent of total quota and 60.5 percent of "E" bonds, Ohio 77.4 and 45.7, Arkansas 73 of total, Pennsylvania 72 and 50, Colorado 72, Nebraska 60 and 15.
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Washington
Montana
Treasury
Minnesota
Ohio
Arkansas
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Nebraska
Governor Will Seek Appointee's Seat
In Boston on February 8 Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, was appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Leverett Saltonstall who said he would run in the fall elections. Weeks was chosen to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who resigned to join active duty in the Army. Weeks later said he would not seek the fall election.
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Boston
Sinclair Weeks
Republican National Committee
United States Senate
Leverett Saltonstall
Weeks
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
United States Army
American bombers strike Frankfurt region again
An armada of American heavy bombers attacked Frankfurt and western Germany for the sixth time in seven days. Twenty one bombers and one fighter failed to return as German antiaircraft fire rose over the area. Gunners shot down four enemy planes and escorts claimed eight more, totaling twelve Allied losses.
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London
Frankfurt
Germany
Navy sinks three German blockade runners in South Atlantic
United States navy forces operating in the South Atlantic early last month sank three German blockade runners heavily laden with vital war materials for the Reich, the navy announced Friday.
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Washington
United States Navy
South Atlantic
Navy
American Bombers Destroy 80 Japanese Planes in New Guinea Raid
American bombers wiped out 80 Japanese planes in a 200 ton raid on Wewak New Guinea Thursday. A swift flanking move on Bougainville in the Solomons sent U S ground forces to the island's eastern coast, announced Saturday.
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New Guinea
Wewak
Bougainville Island
Solomons
United States
Man sues over wife’s body falling from coffin
Charles Bauman of Pittstown New Jersey sues two casket makers for 25,000 claiming his wife’s body fell from the coffin on church steps in Clinton New Jersey last April 26. He says the incident caused hair loss and sleepless, nightmare filled nights.
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Philadelphia
Charles Bauman
Pittstown
N. J
Clinton
Bauman
United States Warns Finland on War Duties
The United States renewed a warning to Finland that she must shoulder all responsibility for fighting with the Nazis. Secretary of State Hull disclosed the directive, as Moscow threatened harsher actions after two Russian air raids on Helsinki that weekend.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Hull
Moscow
Helsinki
Evacuation Hospital Bombed Near Anzio Beachhead
A jammed beachhead evacuation hospital marked with red crosses was bombed by a German dive bomber. By Feb 8 the death toll reached 27 with 5 more in critical condition, including American nurses and four doctors among the dead. A mass burial is planned in Nettuno's new American military cemetery.
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Fifth Army
Anzio
Hubert L. Binkley
Denver
Colo
Nettuno
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Mr. Schug
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Gov. Ford
Great Northern
Rickenbacker
Vatican
Vatican Radio
St. Paul’s Basilica
Rome
Vatican City
Osservatore Romano
Basler
Sues
U.S
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